Word Meanings - ALTERNATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. Holland.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ALTERNATIVE)

• Choice
• Option
• adoption
• selection
• election
• preference
• alternative

Related words: (words related to ALTERNATIVE)

• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
• CHOICEFUL
  Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• OPTIONALLY
  In an optional manner.
• ALTERNATIVE
  1. Offering a choice of two things. 2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. Holland.
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• OPTION
  A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845. (more info) 1. The
• ADOPTIONIST
  One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
• ELECTION
  Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
• OPTIONAL
  Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• ADOPTION
  1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,
• CHOICE
  choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to 1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another;
• ALTERNATIVELY
  In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
• CHOICENESS
  The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.
• PREFERENCE
  1. The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; as, to give him his preference. Leave the critics
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• HOBSON'S CHOICE
  A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing. Note: It is said to have had its origin in the name of one Hobson, at Cambridge, England, who let horses, and required every customer to take in his turn the horse which stood next the
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• PREELECTION
  Election beforehand.